Andersen
The Andersen family was one of the first families to homestead in Arbon Valley (first known as Bannock Valley), coming after the George…
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Thirteen family collections bring together 49 individual and shared biographies. Follow a surname or find a person by their full name.
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About this account · first posted December 31, 2018
Published to the original site by Jacob Andersen. This is the website publication date, not the date of every event described. References to “today” belong to the original account.
Editorial introductions and navigation were added in September 2026. Original citations remain in the account. How we preserve and annotate the history ↗
Arbon
The Arbon family was one of the first families in the valley.
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The Bailey name has been a part of Arbon Valley since 1893. There is even a road named Bailey, in honor of this homesteading family,…
Explore Bailey ↗Bolingbroke
The Bolingbroke family was another large homesteading family in Arbon.
Explore Bolingbroke ↗Bradley
The Bradley family as been in Arbon Valley, in the Crystal area, by 1900.
Explore Bradley ↗Daniels
The Daniels family has been in the Arbon Valley since 1885 when David Moroni Daniels applied for a water right on the Bannock Creek…
Explore Daniels ↗Davis
The first mention of the Davis family in Bannock Valley, Idaho (later to be called Arbon Valley) was in June of 1892 when David John Bowen…
Explore Davis ↗Evans
The Evans surname has been in Arbon Valley from its earliest days.
Explore Evans ↗Hayden
The Hayden family came into the Arbon Valley rather later than the rest of the valley, getting title to their homestead lands in the…
Explore Hayden ↗Jenson
The Jenson family came to Arbon Valley in 1907, proving up on their land in the Summit area of Arbon Valley in 1914.
Explore Jenson ↗Lusk
The Lusk name is associated with one of the earliest claims in the Bannock Valley.
Explore Lusk ↗Swim
The vagaries of fate punctuate the story of how the Swim family came to Arbon Valley.
Explore Swim ↗Ward
The Ward name has been in Arbon Valley since 1893. In that year, Joseph W. Ward applied for both a Possessory Claim on Lake Canyon…
Explore Ward ↗Original account and family map
The map below is a simplified view of the homesteading families. While many people homesteaded and left, this is not meant to be a definitive list of the hundreds of homesteaders who spend some time in the valley, back when they were all trying to wrestle a living out of a hundred and sixty acres. Instead, this history focuses more on the families who remained for generations, and still make an impact on the valley today.
Andersen
- Andrew & Sophia Andersen
- Andrew "Otto" Andersen
- John C. & DeSena Andersen
- A. Mark Andersen
- Earl Dean Andersen
- Willard & Mamie Andersen
- Lynn & JoAnn Andersen
- David Revell Andersen
- Lars Magnus Andersen
- Ezra Taft Andersen
- Harvey George Andersen
- Mary Caroline Andersen
- George Lionel Andersen
- Annie Andersen Pett
- Henry Waldemar Andersen